She closed the book that she
had been pretending to read and gathered her black
umbrella and her backpack, a childish accoutrement she
despised. "I'll be their substitute. 14,
Dexter Street, Westminster, she found was not a house but a yard in an obscure
street, with big gates and the name of Podgers & Carlo, Carriers and Furniture
Removers, thereon. Daughters were not like sons. "You have both," replied Wood, fervently. Dieu du ciel! Gerald was kissing her!
She struggled to be free, and the arms that held her loosened, the lips leaving
hers. I shall take to him as nat'ral as if he were my own flesh
and blood afore long. "
The air in the narrow street, which was not eight feet wide, swarmed with smells
impossible to define; but all at once the pleasantly pungent odour of Chinese
incense drifted across the girl's face, and gratefully she quickened her
inhalations. ‘That is what she wants, is it?’
‘Do you blame her?’ he said stiffly. He said daring things with a grace
which made them irresistible, his eyes flashed back upon her some eloquent but
silent appreciation of the change in her manner towards him. It was dusty, with dirty clothing strewn
about, a cracked basin thick with grime on the rickety dresser, and a film of
grease on the leaded casement. This obstacle being removed, in
his eagerness to proceed, he had forgotten to take his little charge with him. Why shouldn't
James Boyle pinch out a little fun while waiting? How was he to anticipate the
girl and the sea-tramp called The Tigress? Something that wasn't in the play at all
but had walked out of the scenery like the historical black cat?
"I'll have to punish a lot of tobacco to get the kinks out of this. It tore
her apart. Stanley,’ I said.
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